Guild Wars 2

Searching found bugs with people choosing Ben Tenstrikes so I think perhaps there is more than one PS called Reconaissance? This one starts with Meet the Preceptors at the Agora in LA.

I just did the first part of Claw Island. Emerging from that I was already in LA and the next part was to help the Whispers defend LA so I went for it.

Before the attack on LA I would generally do this PS in such an order that I fought the krait by the children last. With the rubble changing the paths, I have to get to them 2nd or 3rd because I can’t get up to the Canal Ward bridge within the instance area without going past the old tailoring section.

I’ve done that twice, and both times the kids keep cowering after I kill all the mobs and won’t move nor will Trahearne comment that I’ve cleared the area. The first time I went on and cleared the bridge and the mystic plaza and Trahearne said just one area left so I returned to the kids, no dice. This time I cleared the plaza, then bank, then tailor, and got the same bug and gave up.

Yuuuup same problem and this was already mentioned three times 10 months ago? good to know nobody is doing anything to fix this.

I hit this bug, but it worked for me the second time. This time, I started out NW, then swept east, doing the children 2nd last and bank last. Alos, there was a krait a bit off to the west of the children that could have been missed.

It is annoying that after all these years this bug is still there. 2 expansions later and still the base story has bugs that make you have to repeat the story you just did. That is where I am now. I looked on wiki and even it says this is a known bug. Has been for years. Pretty frustrating. I don’t feel like doing it all over again so I am just going to put it off for now. For me the only thing I can think of it when I went to the bank that was being robbed there were bandits by the mystic forge and when I came out of the bank the ones by the forge were no longer there and the star for that area gone. My advice would be don’t walk around the area before starting the conversation at every spot because this story is so very buggy…

This story is so buggy and I don’t think Anet ever plans to fix it because it is so old. However, it is a part every player has to go through so you think they would. These bugs have been listed for awhile now: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reconnaissance#Notes. For me it was the cutscene that never activated but I had done all sections and even Trahearne said I did.